standards of quality in social services

Statistical training of researchers in total quality management: The japanese experience

Statistical training of researchers in total quality management: The japanese experience

... Training in Total Quality Management 62 Toyota also employs the hierarchical system of education and training. It is intended, in addition to educate beginners, to train the in- company ... statistical seminars. Since it is important to maintain the training system successfully in a company, top management of the company should be aware of the relevance of applying statistics fully in the ... researcher to be aware of the stage he or she is in the stream of R & D. This implies the necessity of an in- company training course at least in the final stage of education of applied statistics,...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:41

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Báo cáo y học: "Determinants of improvement in quality of life of alcohol-dependent patients during an inpatient withdrawal programme"

Báo cáo y học: "Determinants of improvement in quality of life of alcohol-dependent patients during an inpatient withdrawal programme"

... in QoL of patients during care and the influence of QoL on the prognosis of alcoholism are unknown (22, 23). The aims of this study in a clinical setting was: 1) to determine the change in ... Summary of >6 points in two-thirds of patients and an increase in Mental Component Summary score of >8 points in two-thirds of patients. The variables associated with a large in- crease ... are shown in Table 3. The regression model in- cluding seven variables explained 20% of the total variance (Table 3). Predictive factors of improvement in quality of life during the inpatient...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 10:52

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 Báo cáo y học: "Sustained High Quality of Life in a 5-Year Long Term Follow-up after Successful Ablation for Supra-Ventricular Tachycardia. Results from a large Retrospective Patient Cohort"

Báo cáo y học: "Sustained High Quality of Life in a 5-Year Long Term Follow-up after Successful Ablation for Supra-Ventricular Tachycardia. Results from a large Retrospective Patient Cohort"

... are in line with the literature (1-6, 9, 10). Quality of life in long term follow-up: Prior to interventional therapy, patients mainly suffered from symptoms like tachycardia, increasing incidence ... questions of QoL in SVT, enabling the authors to translate the various domains and components of well being into a quan- titative value. For reasons of structure and to simplify an- swering for ... symptoms. The main reasons for patients seeking therapy were tachycardic palpitations (281 patients, 91.5%) and increasing incidence of episodes (224 patients, 78.1%). In descending order, patients...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:44

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Quality of Service in IP Networks

Quality of Service in IP Networks

... TCP l single loss recovered by Fast Retransmit o Probability p of choosing a given flow is proportional to the rate of the flow l more packets of that flow, higher probability of choosing one of ... networks, i.e., going beyond best effort to provide some assurance for QOS o Work in Progress includes Differentiated Services, and Integrated Services (RSVP) o Simple model for sharing and congestion ... dropped queue transmission packets Queue Management 20 Fair Queueing o Round robin "bit per bit" l each packet marked with the transmission instant of the last bit l served in the order of instants flow 1 flow 2 flow 3 temps Queue...

Ngày tải lên: 06/04/2013, 11:05

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Long-term trends in water quality in an under-populated watershed and influence of precipitation

Long-term trends in water quality in an under-populated watershed and influence of precipitation

... the water quality in the following way. In forests (covering approximately two-thirds of the land in Japan), delayed thinning of conifer plantations (covering approximately 40% of all forests) ... amount of precipitation showed no clear increasing or decreasing trend. A possible hypothesis explaining this lack of a clear decreasing trend in the water quality is that specific pollutant outflows ... case study of this problem, it has been reported that delayed thinning of conifer plantations was responsible for increased amounts of pollutant runoff, as determined by comparing the pollutant...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

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Tài liệu Diagnostic Standards and Classification of Tuberculosis in Adults and Children doc

Tài liệu Diagnostic Standards and Classification of Tuberculosis in Adults and Children doc

... method of administration Injection of too little antigen Subcutaneous injection Delayed administration after drawing into syringe Injection too close to other skin tests Factors related to reading ... because of fever. Disseminated tuberculosis . Disseminated tuberculosis oc- curs because of the inadequacy of host defenses in containing tuberculous infection. This failure of containment ... Tuberculin Testing F. Previous Vaccination with BCG G. Definition of Skin Test Conversions H. Anergy Testing in Individuals Infected with HIV VII. Classification of Persons Exposed to and/or Infected...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 12:20

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Tài liệu The Role of Nutrition in Maintaining Health in the Nation’s Elderly: Evaluating Coverage of Nutrition Services for the Medicare Population ppt

Tài liệu The Role of Nutrition in Maintaining Health in the Nation’s Elderly: Evaluating Coverage of Nutrition Services for the Medicare Population ppt

... Board INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE The Role of Nutrition in Maintaining Health in the Nation’s Elderly Evaluating Coverage of Nutrition Services for the Medicare Population 6 NUTRITION AND HEALTH IN ... provision of nutrition services is of benefit to individu- als in terms of morbidity, mortality, or quality of life? Approximately two-thirds of the committee’s effort was spent in this initial ... new services previously not covered, including nutrition services. Changes in health care since the inception of Medicare in 1965 have had a significant impact on the delivery of nutrition services...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 16:20

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Tài liệu The Economic Promise of Investing in High-Quality Preschool: Using Early Education to Improve Economic Growth and the Fiscal Sustainability of States and the Nation pptx

Tài liệu The Economic Promise of Investing in High-Quality Preschool: Using Early Education to Improve Economic Growth and the Fiscal Sustainability of States and the Nation pptx

... Emeritus McKinsey Global Institute McKinsey & Company, Inc. Vice Chairman IAN ARNOF Chairman Arnof Family Foundation REX D. ADAMS Professor of Business Administration The Fuqua School of Business Duke ... economic stability, such as owning a home, owning a car, maintaining a savings account, and being financially independent. 85 Abecedarian students were also more likely to be employed in skilled jobs at ... competition from China and India is intense. Without a well-educated workforce, it will be difficult to maintain the increases in productivity that raise American standards of living. Demographic...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20

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